Best Practices: Maintain A Healthy Mind
It's not difficult to find information and inspiration about staying in shape and maintaining a healthy body. However, without maintaining a healthy mind, you...
Best Practices: Wargaming As Training
There is a school of thought that suggests good training is proportionate to the amount of money you spend; the more you spend the...
Best Practices: Why the OODA Loop is Still Relevant
The OODA loop was created by Air Force colonel John Boyd in the late 1950s. He was a Korean War fighter pilot and a...
Best Practices: Dealing With Citizens Complaints
Dealing with Citizen complaints is not always easy, but treating irate citizens with respect and patience can help you stop serious trouble before it...
Best Practices: Developing Training Acronyms
Effective training acronyms and teaching terms can communicate larger concepts in a few letters.
Law enforcement officers present a tough audience for trainers and educators....
Best Practices: How To…Respond Instead of React
The Aug. 9, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered a chain of events that changed how the public perceived law enforcement....
Best Practices: Maximize Initial Response
This Best Practices article discusses the importance of investing in your first 10 minutes in order to maximize initial response.
Borrowing a line from the...
Best Practices: Leading By Example
Respect comes from leading by example.
Anything I ever needed to know about leadership I learned serving in the U.S. Army prior to becoming a...
Best Practices: Teamwork Minus the B.S.
We live in an age of political correctness where saying the right things seems to have more value than doing the right things. People...
Best Practices: Critical Incident Delegation And Documentation
Critical incident delegation and documentation is as important as as the tactical side of an operation and Amaury Murgado explains how it will help...
Best Practices: Closing the Reactionary Gap
One of the most important things you can learn about dealing face to face with suspects is the concept of relative positioning. Relative positioning...
Best Practices: Warrior Mindset
You probably hear about needing to have a warrior mindset almost daily. Books are published about it, motivational speakers make money speaking of it,...
Stripes and Bars: Lead, Don’t Blame
WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG at an agency, administrators go into self-preservation mode. This, in turn, has a cascading effect all the way down to...
Best Practices: Effective Decision-Making Based on Defining the Problem
Effective decision-making involves starting out with the right mindset.
Decision-making is a basic skill common to all law enforcement officers regardless of position or rank....
Stripes and Bars: Maintaining Focus
IF YOU ARE A STAR WARS FAN, you might remember that in Episode I, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn tells young Anakin Skywalker, "Always remember,...
Best Practices: Stress Management
Stress is an officer’s number one nemesis. During a call, it creates automatic psychological and physiological responses that reduce your effectiveness. Too much stress...
Best Practices: Responding vs Reacting
At face value, there doesn't seem to be much difference between the words responding and reacting. However, if you take a moment to look...
Best Practices: Goal-Oriented Training
Many in law enforcement view training as something to try to get out of. Since it’s often seen as a necessary evil, it’s always...
Stripes and Bars: Don’t Be An Idea Person
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF IDEAS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. However, there is a shortage of people who will actually implement them. In today's world,...
